In an effort to keep everyone up to date with Suzie Moon's recovery we are starting this blog. This will enable us to update each other on Suzie's progress without relying on individual e-mails and forwards.
Posts can be added following visits or updates. The blog will also function as a means of sending messages of encouragement, gossip, on-site shenanigans (what?!) and the like to Suzie which can they be relayed by those visiting her at any given time.
We can also share information about fund-raisers and resources to aid Suzie and her family during her recovery.
Will McKinley and I hope to visit the hospital later today and an update will follow. Please pass this link along to all concerned.
Thanks all,
Mia
12 comments:
team franklin is happy there is now a team Suzie to keep up with her progress. Yes!
This is a great idea! Now, since I'm all the way on the left coast, could you start this blog with a little update of where we are now? Last I heard was that Lucy and Ethel saw lovely Suzie and she was just waking up. Where do we stand now? Thanks you guys!!!
Mia, thanks so much... send Susie my love, hope to visit her soon!
Thanks Mia for getting this blog up and running. It's important.
The following is part of my personal journal entry after I visited Suzie. I thought I should share it.
-Danny
Suzie at the Hospital on Wednesday 9/3/08
"Life is unfair", "Humanity is Fragile". Yes and yes. Srini and I visited Suzie Moon at the hospital this morning. A couple of weeks ago she suffered an aneurysm during dance classes. Her sister, Cindy, informed us that her situation was hereditary.
Suzie is young; in her early 30's. When she got the aneurysm, she lost 90% of her brain function. The doctors had to induce the coma to stop the swelling of the brain. Now, out of a coma, Suzie struggles everyday to regain what she has lost. It's a miracle thus far.
I don't know exactly how to feel. How am I suppose to feel? I just know I'm sad. Granted I didn't spend as much time with her outside of work, but it was quality time nonetheless. I really hope she can pull herself through the long road ahead to recovery; It exists, this road to recovery. She has to live for life's sake. That's how I imagine it.
I don't know what she's going through. She must feel incredibly frustrated and angry. Why can't I move my body? I'm so young! I can only imagine what she's going through. What can I do? What can I do to ease the pain? How would she react if it were me? What would she want from me? I don't know.
I believe she would want me to honor her by not trivializing life. To have perspective. And, pardon the cliché - Live in the moment. Live for something. That I must and can do.
I will see her again. She cried when Srini and I visited her. She cried immediately. It was a good thing. She hasn't lost the most basic human emotion; the ability to feel. She needs to know people around her love her. Every human being needs that.
If I were in that situation, I think to myself, what would I want from my friends and family visiting? During that time of despair and pain, I want hope and beauty. How do I do that?
The next time I see her, I'm going to read her a poem. Hopefully, it'll ease her pain. Maybe a Rumi poem.
Danny Thanks for sharing those thoughts. I couldn't have said it better.
Thanks mia.. great idea..
danny thank you for sharing your entry.. your amazing.. xoxox j
this is such a great idea. you guys rock for doing this! on behalf of all the people who aren't aware of this blog yet - THANK YOU!!
I've been thinking of Suzie every day. Frosty, thanks so much for setting up this site. Danny, your journal entry is beautiful and you're so right...we all should remember not to trivialize life...as I sit here trying to concentrate on a meaningful comment and my daughter is telling me she needs to go to the potty and how will she wash her hands because her nails are wet. Planning on a visit soon....
This is a wonderful idea. Thanks for putting it together, Mia. It sounds like Suzie is getting better every day. I hope that soon she will read all the lovely things everyone has written for and about her.
Get well, Suzie!
xo,
Diane
Yeah, Team Suzie! I am so grateful to Mia for creating this blog. I have been wondering about Suzie's recovery and praying for her ever since I heard about what happened. I've been doing theatre and not around much this summer at all. So I am very happy to hear she is making such strides. I hope to visit soon. Thanks for these updates! Suzie has always been and always will be an exceptional human being who touched all of our lives... I know her strong spirit will guide her... Thanks again, for all these updates!
Thanks to TEAM SUSIE, so that all of us who love Susie, can keep up with her progress.
What are the specifics about financial donation?
Thanks
Buddy Crutchfield
hello all,
its crazy but i have recently been thinking about my old friend suzie. we attended elementary and high school together and unfortunately lost contact after i moved. i just happened to google her to find out this horrible news. i would really like to visit her if possible. could someone email me her info please. cindy may remember me from stuy town.
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